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1 OVERVIEW: RURAL POVERTY IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: ISSUES, POLICIES AND CHALLENGES David Suttie, Global Engagement Specialist, IFAD Background: Inequality, POVERTY and disempowerment especially impact RURAL people Globally, extreme POVERTY continues to be overwhelmingly RURAL : an estimated 79 per cent of those experiencing POVERTY live in RURAL With latest figures indicating that in 2015 there were around 736 million people living in extreme POVERTY globally down from nearly 2 billion in 1990 - it can be surmised that the number of poor RURAL people in the world today in likely in the realm of 580 million.
than urban youth, for rural female youth the situation is even more stark, with less than half having basic literacy skills, impeding employment and entrepreneurship prospects. 7
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